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Introduction to Linux - A Hands on Guide

This guide was created as an overview of the Linux Operating System, geared toward new users as an exploration tour and getting started guide, with exercises at the end of each chapter.
For more advanced trainees it can be a desktop reference, and a collection of the base knowledge needed to proceed with system and network administration. This book contains many real life examples derived from the author's experience as a Linux system and network administrator, trainer and consultant. They hope these examples will help you to get a better understanding of the Linux system and that you feel encouraged to try out things on your own.

I also had to install 2 fonts into /usr/share/ghostscript. That requires meticulous hand editing of Fontmap. Don't bugger your Fontmap or yer hooped. Actually, gs seems to have improved dramatically since 8.01. Now it actually tells me errors and issues as they happen, instead of barfing some cryptic message with a stack trace down the road somewhere, leaving me in the dark as to what exactly the problem is. I was laughing last night, because it seems people who program postscript are from some other planet. Did you know postscript is a legitimate programming language?

when I got this years ago, it had a bug: if the 10th fell on Sunday, it wouldn't compensate and the numbers 10-31 would be out of whack. Bug's gone, I've been using it, since, well, before Arch was around.

You can copy it to a file, call it 'calendar.ps', and print it. Just right click and send it to you printer, it knows what to do. You'll get a lovely one page landscape calendar like you buy from the store, without the pretty girl. Supply them yourself

Does somebody have a link to a GOOD tutorial on udev? Or is there some tidbit I've overlooked?

hi,

you can find here : obarun.org . a try to keep Arch without systemd or libsystemd. it run with runit. a complete graphical environment is installed under openbox but with the minimal required.
some package was rebuild to unsupport systemd like xorg-server lvm2 etc....

Fortunately, once I got the system working to my liking, I haven't touched systemd since. I still miss /var/log and simple editable boot scripts. All those binaries in /usr/lib get my spidey-senses tingling. I don't like them, and I don't like them a lot.

Who decided SysVinit had to go to the dump? It's worked fine for decades.

sysvinit need a successor not a replacement.
runit is a good alternative for me. work like a charm, simple et robust. but it's only my opinion .
start only what i need and what i want.
try the iso and tell us. i boot in 20 sec (from power button to desktop) with a i3 4330, 8ghz ram, 7200 rpm DD with 16M cache. same machine with systemd take 20sec more and it's not stable what we are saying.

OK. I got the lite one. Works good. Boot to browser in about 20 seconds. Thanks for the grub menu to boot from existing OS. The rest is all playing with config. NFS, sound, etc. Nice work. I like that: "It's not a distro, just me sharing." Thanks for sharing.

I'll have a closer look when I get a chance, but I like the stripped down, bare metal approach.

Update: v0.4 came through. 728760320 bytes in 11m 52s. Thank you very much.

If you run `pacman -Syu` then you can always say "no" to the proposed upgrade but *do not* install new packages before adding the unwanted packages to /etc/pacman.conf (marked as "IgnorePkg") and upgrading the rest of the system with `pacman -Syu`https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php...ed_packages.3F

Last edited by Head_on_a_Stick; 08-20-2015 at 02:02 PM.
Reason: added "installed" in the first sentence.

you can install a package and tell to pacman that a package is already installed by : pacman -S package_to_install --assume-installed package_already_installed (pacman -S colord --assume-installed systemd)

and so one..

be careful when doing this. Pacman is a beautiful and powerfull tools that can break your system without error on his part.